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DuecesxGeneral
reply to post by wildtimes
you do know that the followers of the prophet were heavily persecuted because they refused to worship the idols and follow their ancestors way of tradition.
and this type of persecution was not from strangers but by their own families.
logical7
his wife died due to the economic bycott imposed on his tribe because he did not stop preaching his message.
babloyi
you were less extreme in your views when you were a catholic (I seem to remember you being one in earlier ATS days)
babloyi
I'm sorry, you're pretty extremist in your views. Like just now, where you said that torturing and killing and starving muslims is the best way possible to protect oneself.
DuecesxGeneral
Islam is the fastest growing reliwgon not because of deception but because it shows the light at the end of the tunnel.
You know how many women I saw studying computer science or electrical engineering in a major university in one year the UK? Zero. In the US? I think there were 2.
babloyi
reply to post by FlyersFan
Your ignorance of the religion shows again. So let me explain it to you:
They didn't "cut off trade". This was when the muslims probably numbered less than 50, living IN Mecca with their oppressors, being barred from buying food, having food and water shared with them, even from their family members, the married converts being divorced, any marriages being planned banned, slaves and weaker members being beaten and tortured and killed. The muslims had no "invading hordes". This was long before the allowance to fight against oppressors was revealed.
Your blind hatred of Islam and muslims sometimes trips up with all these "FACTS!!111!" and being FACTUAL and FACTS FACTS.
Another example of that, your constant repetition of that statement about Iran. Read your own link. While I feel no obligation to defend Iran, women aren't "banned from getting an eduaction". Some universities have been ordered to restrict some degrees for women. The huge number of women educated in these technical fields in Iran makes me very happy (over 75% according to your link).
You know how many women I saw studying computer science or electrical engineering in a major university in one year the UK? Zero. In the US? I think there were 2. In Egypt? About 20-30 in a class of a hundred. In Pakistan? about 15 in a class of 60. I am very glad that in these countries, despite what other hardships women might sometimes face, they're freed from the idiotic gendered ideas of what subjects it is cool to study and what it is not.
The figures come from the Census Bureau’s annual Current Population Survey, and were released along with a series of reports taken from another ongoing canvass, the American Community Survey. One of those, examining major fields of study, shows that taken together, engineering and science are the most common areas for bachelor’s degrees, representing 34.9 percent of the total.
The persistence of men in those fields is waning, a significant trend given that engineers and people with science backgrounds tend to be in high demand, and have above-average incomes. Among college graduates 65 or older, only 23 percent of those with degrees in science or engineering majors are women; among people 40 to 64, the proportion of women rises to 36 percent; among those 25 to 39, 45.9 percent are women.
babloyi
Your blind hatred of Islam and muslims
women aren't "banned from getting an eduaction". Some universities have been ordered to restrict some degrees for women.
FlyersFan
I don't hate muslims. I pity them. Just as I pity fundamentalists of any religion.
I hate the ignorance of religious fundamentalism. Just ask the christians in the religion forum.
And you story about innocent small numbers of muslims being supposedly poorly treated...
I'm not buying it. They were never innocent. They stole and killed from the start.
FlyersFan
Dead wrong. Women in Iran are now banned from getting 77 higher level degrees - engineering, medicine, etc
Iranian university bans on women causes consternation
More than 30 universities have introduced new rules banning female students from almost 80 different degree courses.
babloyi
I'm sure ignorance is bliss.
In 2012, due to the Iranian government under Ahmedinejad, some universities had been ordered to restrict some degrees for women. And medicine, which you so gleefully included, wasn't mentioned.
Thirty-six Iranian universities are participating in the ban, which will make many higher-education classes exclusive to men as of next academic year, the Telegraph reported.
Senior clerics in Iran's theocratic regime have become concerned about the social side-effects of rising educational standards among women, including declining birth and marriage rates.
babloyi
in your mind there is not even the possibility that muslims could've been nice guys who were oppressed.
FlyersFan
The mantra of those indoctrinated in organized religions ...
babloyi
Women aren't banned from school (or university or college). THAT statement is categorically false.